Without energy and without a strategic partner, Cuba is currently fighting for its survival. While the population is literally sitting in the dark, the Trump administration is trying to definitively break the socialist project through economic blackmail. What lies ahead for the island, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
Violence against women, the shadow pandemic
Statement from the Communist Party of Britain and its Women's Organiser CAROL STAVRIS to mark UN Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
A recent Financial Times column on the Iran war exemplifies how the Western elite worldview is more concerned with strategy and power than legality or human life, writes ANDREW MURRAY
STEVE BISHOP considers the prospects for a settlement of the conflict and how the demands of both sides are being viewed
The PM is drawing cautious distance from Donald Trump over Iran – but history suggests Britain’s support may run deeper than it appears, just as it did during the Vietnam war, says KEITH FLETT
THROUGHOUT the world, November 25 is recognised as the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
World Health Organisation research estimates that one in three women globally experience physical and/or sexual violence in their lifetime. Most violence comes from an intimate partner.
In poor regions of the world, in war zones and in countries with authoritarian regimes, women’s health, wellbeing and safety are badly compromised.
In countries with histories of misogyny, levels of femicide — the killing of women because they are women — have always been high. Some progressive governments, for example in Mexico, are now recognising this and attempting to change their cultures.
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